Example sentences of "times [conj] [pron] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dr James Swire , who had lost a daughter at Lockerbie and was the leading spokesman for the British families , told The Times that he still believed the atrocity had been carried out by the PFLP — GC , acting as mercenaries for the Iranians , although he was anxious to see the two Libyans brought to trial by any means short of force . |
| 2 | Sadly , I only ever saw my grandmother a couple of times so I never came to know her . |
| 3 | Mrs Bradshaw had met my mother a couple of times and they plainly approved of each other . |
| 4 | It 's been a good four years for me to lay low , because they 've changed the stuff so many times and they now seem to be getting down to some conclusions about MIDI and stuff . |
| 5 | And we went three times and they always planned and planned and planned and had ideas what they could do . |
| 6 | I played against the English nine times and they always had a very strong scrum . |
| 7 | In fact , you can just get on and off them a few times and they never seem to register the same thing twice ! |
| 8 | Alan 's by-line was to be seen as a foreign correspondent for a number of national papers including the Daily Express , Daily Sketch , Sunday Times and he also wrote for Mail on Sunday . |
| 9 | There 's also no pressure to come or go , no one scorns the woman who 's left home five times and who still goes back , who loves her husband and wants to be wanted . |
| 10 | Among names that immediately spring to mind are those of Sydney Schanberg , the former New York Times correspondent who was in Phnom Penh at the time of the fall , and whose subsequent search for his Cambodian assistant , Dith Pran , was documented in Roland Joffé 's film The Killing Fields , who arrived in Indo- China at the age of 21 and was there from 1970 to mid-1975 , first with Agence France Presse , then as a stringer for The Sunday Times — when all the other journalists were getting out , Swain was either brave or foolhardy enough to fly back into Phnom Penh in time for its fall ; William Shawcross who , along with many others , covered the Vietnam war for The Sunday Times and who subsequently became obsessed with the fate of Cambodia , an obsession that resulted first in Sideshow , which exposed the role of Nixon and Kissinger , and then in The Quality of Mercy , a study of the work of the Red Cross in Cambodia ; John Pilger , the British-based Australian journalist whose work on Cambodia may have had little concrete effect but has at least helped to ensure that the tragic country will never disappear into oblivion ; Philip Caputo , who went initially to Vietnam in March 1965 as a 23-year-old Marine officer with the first US combat group sent to Indo-China and returned in 1975 as a correspondent to report on what was left of the war . |
| 11 | She tried to bolt out several times and she finally made it . |
| 12 | And er I went six times and it never made any bloody difference . |
| 13 | They show it on the Leeds United — The Glory Years video about three times and it always appears on the ten best goals of all time . |
| 14 | Since then I have flown in another black cessna stunt plane and with my dad 3 times and I also done another circuit with Andy . |
| 15 | ‘ It 's so chaotic at times and I really do n't like to have to dodge between cars with the children . ’ |
| 16 | I 've thought about what happened next a million times and I still do n't know the answer . |
| 17 | Tony Phillips asked the two men to leave 15 times but they only went minutes before police arrived . |
| 18 | It 's tempting to be manly and brutal at times but it often pays to be more cautions with your responses that are selected using a multiple choice system . |
| 19 | Dad thanked the man several times but he just grunted and left . |
| 20 | Hopper , who plays bad guy Koopa , storms : ‘ The movie was re-written six times before we even started — now it 's re-written every day . ’ |
| 21 | In 1316 , however , the southern clergy met three times before they finally capitulated towards the end of the year and authorized the collection of a tenth ; even then , it was to be delivered in two moieties , one in 1317 , the other in 1318 . |
| 22 | In substantial problems , this technique may be used many times before one finally resolves the question . |
| 23 | I had n't , I 'd borrowed it from Duncan but I 'd heard the Hell 's Angel crack so many times before I suddenly decided to charge him for it . |
| 24 | I 'm sure I will have to sing the Marschallin 100 times before I fully understand the depth of the character . ’ |
| 25 | Landing with a thud on the dirty slope , her brand new Reeboks scrabbled in the dirt a couple of times before she finally pulled herself up . |